Our house in 2011
to been rewarded by 3 º Prize
of the best rural
houses of the bierzo
for the prizes of Canedo's Palace.

Rural house Sol y Luna this located in the heart
of Bierzo, in the calm village of Santa Cruz of
Montess, that with their 200 inhabitants in
winter do of her the suitable place for the rest,
in incomparable place, and with multitude of
activities in summer when duplicating I number
of visitors, where it will be able to enjoy
surroundings surrounded by mountains and nature
next to its people.

The rural house consists of three plants, and this
totally reformed in the 2010, its owners taking care of
all and each one of details, have equipped to the house
the cosy atmosphere right for the rural surroundings in
which one is.

His
walls of stone they give faith of his old origin giving
him to wood protagonism and berziano style. Furnished
agreed to the style and with objects old, they make of
her a house with the rural atmosphere necessary. Trying
in its restoration to recover the stone walls and
soportaciones of wood that originally they found in the
house, conserving his natural enchantment, and
simultaneously to make it cosy where the traveller feels
comfortable and their preoccupations are the minims, for
which it is had equipped the house yet the essential
thing for it.

Santa Cruz de Montes is a population pertaining to city
council of Tower of the Bierzo, to the west of province
of Leon, in the entrance to the valley of the Bierzo
from the Plateau. At the moment it has about 200
inhabitants, although the number was remarkably superior
during apogee of the industry of the coal, main source
of wealth during 75 years. Account with a church of half-full
of Century XVIII, and with a hermitage of the Century
XVII. In addition several interesting buildings exist,
like an old hospital of travelling or one old prison.
The legend of the zone speaks of the existence of
convent left during the Arab invasion and of I castrate
Roman, although at the moment rest do not exist of none
of the two things.

The zone has a good one number of museums to visit like
the Ethnographic Museum of High Bierzo (Bembibre), the
Museum of the Bierzo (Ponferrada) or Ethnographic museum
of Noceda of the Bierzo. Places of great interest
patrimonial like “the 40 Marrows” to Kms. (Patrimony of
Humanity), Monastery of Cariacedo, Monastery of S.
Miguel of the Owners, Way of Santiago (the Holly,
Molinaseca, Villafranca of the Bierzo, Or Cebreiro),
Peñalba of Santiago (joint historical-artistic), Hills
of Santiago (joint historical-artistic), Blacksmith shop
of Compludo (Roman blacksmith shop), Castle of the
Templarios (Ponferrada), rural Architecture in Ancares
(pallozas, hórreos, etc.). Sport activities like the
parapente in the mountain range of Gistredo.

A good number of routes of senderismo in the zone like
the sources of Noceda and mountain range of Gistredo,
Poza of the Holes, Matavenero and Poibueno, Ascent to
Catoute tip (ceiling of the Bierzo, 2117 mts). Finally
to emphasize the excellence of the local gastronomy with
plates so famous like botillo, the wines with
denomination of roasted origin, peppers, the popular
magostos that are celebrated in the autumn, etc